Re: pic anomalies

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Hello Federico, hello (again) Doug,

This isn't a manual page that I maintain. See
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pic.1.html#COLOPHON.

I suspect "3. An error in pic itself".

Thanks,

Michael

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 at 19:31, Federico Lucifredi <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hello Doug,
>   for (1), I am CCing Michael Kerrisk — and the procedure to report issues on 
> the man pages is tracked here 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html (In brief: email 
> address@hidden and CC address@hidden).
>
>    Best -Federico
>
>
> > On Dec 27, 2019, at 11:08 AM, Doug McIlroy <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > The description of sprintf in the man page pic(1) does not
> > reveal that only a few format codes are permitted.
> >
> > Eric Raymond's "Making Pictures With GNU PIC" says only
> > %,%e,%f,%g are  permitted. But what does a bare % mean?
> >
> > In fact pic rejects a bare %. However it does accept
> > %%, which is supposed to print a single %. Pic,
> > however prints %%.
> >
> > So I believe we have
> > 1. An incompleteness in pic(1)
> > 2. An error in "Making Pictures With GNU PIC"
> > 3. An error in pic itself
> >
> > Doug
> >
>


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